For millions of us, a trip to Starbucks is as routine as a visit to the grocery store. Heck, tons of grocery stores have ...

A Los Angeles jury decided on March 10, 2025, that Disney did not steal the idea for its 2016 animated movie Moana. The ...

A jury on Monday quickly rejected a man's claim that Disney's "Moana" was stolen from his story of a young surfer in Hawaii.

Instead, in what is likely the final chapter of Mark Herman’s long and strange journey to prove he wasn’t involved in the 1976 shotgun slaying of Palm Beach oil executive Richard Kreusler ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly ...

NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s 2010 operatic adaptation of Herman Melville’s landmark 1851 ...

And in the 19th century, they were featured in the writings of Charles Darwin and Herman Melville. But, despite enduring interest, much remains unknown about the purpose of narwhals’ tusks ...

By Zachary Woolfe The opening line of Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” is one of the most famous in literature. But Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer, whose moody, monochromatic 2010 adaptation ...

Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s 2010 adaptation of Melville’s unruly novel opens this week at the Metropolitan Opera.

The article stated it was a "a city so rich in past glories and present potential that even Herman Melville once noted its opulent homes and lush gardens." The article paints a portrait of a place ...

When Leonard Foglia was invited to direct an opera based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece about a white whale, his first reaction was: “Moby-Dick. That’s great!” “Then I ran to a used ...